PhD and MSc students with whom I collaborate
I (co)supervise the works of these students with colleagues from ISPA-IU, GIMM, FCUL, FCSE-UCP, and abroad
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Current students
Current students
Rita Andrade, PhD student 2018-present (former MSc student 2015-2016)
My main interests are in animal behaviour, cognition and learning, applied to conservation. The goal of my PhD thesis is to study the social complexity of colonies of the Lusitanian pine vole (Microtus lusitanicus). Outside research, my passion is dance. So I dance in my free times!
Where can you find Rita?Rita is a PhD student at FCUL, in the PhD Programme in Biology and Ecology of Global ChangesMaria da Luz's lab, CESAM-Lisboa / FCULAna M. Cerveira, CESAM-Lisboa / FCULFunding:FCT PhD scholarship: PD/BD/135576/2018
Carla Henriques, PhD student 2018-2024
Animals can learn for themselves (asocial learning) or be influenced by the behaviour of others (social learning). The goal of my PhD thesis is to study the cognitive differences between these two behaviourally distinct phenotypes. In my free times - if I have any ! - I study Medicine at the Santa Maria Hospital, in Lisbon.
Carla defended her PhD thesis on November 25, 2024. Congratulations Carla!
Where can you find Carla?Carla was a PhD student at the IGC/GIMM, in the PhD Programme in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine of IGC, Integrative Behavioural Biology Group (IBBG)Rui Oliveira lab (ISPA-IU, IGC/GIMM)Funding:FCT PhD scholarship: PD/BD/138178/2018The SocialFly Project: PTDC/BIA-COM/31887/2017; PTDC/BIA-COM/6124/2020
Isabel Costa, MSc student 2023-present
I am a Biologist and study associative learning in fruit flies, namely the social learning performance of transgenic flies, whose transgenes label specific neurons in the Mushroom Body, the associative learning center, of the fly's brain. I use the classic appetitive visual conditioning paradigm.
Manuel Sapage, PhD student 2017-2023
I study mate-choice copying (MCC), both empirically and theoretically. MCC is a mechanism of non-independent mate-choice where individuals change their mate preferences favouring similar mates to the ones they saw being chosen by conspecifics. My general goal is to predict the impact of MCC in sexual selection and evolution.
Manuel defended his PhD thesis on April 20, 2023. Congratulations Manuel!
Where can you find Manuel?Manuel was a PhD student at FCUL, in the PhD Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics, and EvolutionMargarida Matos' lab, cE3c, FCULIngo Schlupp's lab, Oklahoma University, USAFunding:FCT PhD scholarship: PD/BD/128349/2017
Past students
Past students
See my past students and information about their projects here.
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